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munchlerlast Wednesday at 8:48 PM4 repliesview on HN

I've tried to use Thunderbird multiple times over the years, but I always end up with a corrupted mailbox after a week or two, so I go back to Outlook. Is TB finally reliable enough to try again? I'd love to ditch Outlook, but I don't want to be a sucker.

Update: OK, I'm trying it again.


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timbit42last Wednesday at 9:02 PM

I've used Thunderbird for years and know half a dozen other people using it, including one who has folders with tens of thousands of emails, and have never heard of any data corruption.

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Remnant44last Wednesday at 9:18 PM

Thunderbird is my daily driver email client for all my business email for over a decade.

I've never had a single corruption problem in that time, with probably hundreds of thousands of emails. Take that for what its worth.

The only complaint I've ever had is when they redid their UI a year or two ago it got unbearably slow - which improved over the next few iterations until its now fine again.

vasachilast Wednesday at 8:57 PM

My coworker uses thunderbird since time immemorial, and I don’t think it ever corrupted his mailbox.

spacechild1last Wednesday at 9:00 PM

I have been using Thunderbird myself for years and never had any such problems.